The Glass Shield
Release Date: 1994-09-16
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Charles Burnett
Producer(s): Carolyn Schroeder, Thomas S. Byrnes
Production Country: France, United States of America
Original Language: English
Budget: $5,000,000.00
Revenue: $3,291,163.00
Overview:
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff’s Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.’s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Cast:
Bernie Casey, Don Harvey, Elliott Gould, Erich Anderson, Ernie Lee Banks, Ice Cube, Joseph Walsh, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Linden Chiles, Lori Petty, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Boatman, Michael Gregory, Michael Ironside, Monty Bane, Natalija Nogulich, Richard Anderson, Sy Richardson, Thomas Babson, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Victoria Dillard, Wanda De Jesus
Crew:
Charles Burnett (Director), Armen Ksajikian (Musician), Charles Burnett (Writer), Ned Welsh (Screenplay), John Eddie Johnson (Screenplay), Elliot Davis (Director of Photography), Carolyn Schroeder (Producer), Penny Barrett (Production Design), Patrick Peach (Co-Producer), Joel Carter (Art Direction), Thomas S. Byrnes (Producer), Gaye Shannon-Burnett (Costume Design), Chet Walker (Executive Producer), Curtiss Clayton (Editor), Michael D. Aglion (Associate Producer), Monica Swann (Casting), Robert A. Merrill (Associate Producer), Stephen James Taylor (Original Music Composer), Lisa Boutillier (Set Decoration)